"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Mid morning
Cold salmon , 2 hard boiled eggs, mayo
Gardening, the soil is so dry, it's like dust.
Mid afternoon
A snack pack of seeds (m&s, tamari flavour, very nice)
Very small slice fruit cake. I'd made it for the older people's club. Sadly it was very dry.
D: bolognaise mince, mashed swede. Hm lc rhubarb cake. 2 sqs 70% chocolate.

With hindsight far too many carbs for 1 day

2 dry fried eggs and RyVita for breakfast today.

2nd meal will be more of the spiced mince with something or other. Veg probably not a good idea today though so may try to make some kind of bun replacement to make a sloppy Joe kind of thing.

Fasted until 12:30. (Aka just kept busy, wasn't hungry so didn't think about eating )
L: a McDonald's bacon double cheeseburger. Didn't eat the bun. A nut bar
D: cold salmon (finally finished yay!), a hard boiled egg. Mayo. 2 sqs 70% chocolate

Strawberries with a mixture of yoghurt and cream for breakfast.

2nd meal will be the last of the spiced beef mince in some form. Whether that form involves vegetables I shall decide later, depending on what my insides are doing at the time.

Well it all went wrong last evening. I went to a meeting where there usually only tea or coffee, but a birthday person brought along nibbles (all carbs) and wine, then someone else produced a cake! Then I was sent home with leftovers for hubby!
I had 1, then 2 then a handful, then most! I'm blaming the Prosecco!

Today resolved I must lose this extra stone I'm carrying.
Started with cwc then errands and a wonderful back massage.
L: 1 cold sausage, 1 hard boiled egg, 1/4 pear. Some ff greek yoghurt

Then a planned walk went wrong due to some intimidating young cows in a field. I was on my own and they kept rounding up around me, so I gave up and retraced my steps. Trouble was diversion was longer and along a road without a footway. Luckily some friends drove past, stopped and gave me a lift. We were all heading to a charity tea. It was all scones but I managed to swerve them by just having a strawberries and clotted cream.

I did manage to walk home choosing a different route through the bluebell woods. A friend came with me.

D: a large chunk cheese, 3 slices hm lc soda bread, a bit of pizza topping.

Off to a dancing weekend tomorrow. There will be lots of exercise, some wine and hopefully minimal carbs.

MrsA2 said:

Then a planned walk went wrong due to some intimidating young cows in a field. I was on my own and they kept rounding up around me, so I gave up and retraced my steps. Trouble was diversion was longer and along a road without a footway. Luckily some friends drove past, stopped and gave me a lift. We were all heading to a charity tea. It was all scones but I managed to swerve them by just having a strawberries and clotted cream.

I did manage to walk home choosing a different route through the bluebell woods. A friend came with me.

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This sounds like the extra exercise may have dealt with the extra carbs!

Today was the first day of 3 again on the bridge.
I used my break to buy a cheap (99 euros) second hand laptop to use at work, and it looks like a very good deal so far!
After a few tries it turned out I did remember passwords for forum, email, and Facebook, so now the new computer knows as well.
Still completely frustrated with not being able to find settings to turn off the spell checker (I can't write with red lines uner my text, it prevents me from feeling the rhythm of what I write), and I can't find how to install a password to open the computer. I need one because the new laptop can live at the bridge, but I don't want colleagues to be able to use it with the passwords for various sites saved, they can bring their own laptop if they want to.

The delightful computer store where I bought it is just around the corner from work so I'll go back tomorrow and have them help me. It's a small store, crammed full of second hand computers, computer parts, a large workbench with several projects going on, and two or three men who are most likely on the spectrum who have made a business out of their hobby.
I had to wait for at least 15 minutes before someone could help me because the only employee capable of advising on buying was on the phone, patiently asking out all details for a computer related problem, not at all hurried by a customer waiting. Those are my kind of people, I'm sure they'll help me out.

Yesterday I prepared food for three days to be microwaved on the bridge: Runner beans (I can choose between butter and salt or blue cheese, today I chose a mild blue cheese), tuna melt muffins, and some experimental veggie and egg things, think omelette with very little eggs. Not bad at all!
Should I really don't want to eat the same thing on day 3, I gave myself permission to feed the fishes under the bridge and make a sandwich, or even order some food.
Can't really order food where I live, but I can in the city where I work. Provided I can find something suitable and tasty. Or something not as suitable to diabetes but very tasty.
I'm trying to wrap my head around it being not completely wasteful to maybe order a meal once or twice a month now I'm making some money. And maybe it isn't a bad thing to allow myself a harder to dose for meal once a month either, especially if I have the whole evening to get things right again with my BG on an evening where I'll have the day off tomorrow. I should have some leeway, my hba1c has been in the low 30's for years, and while I like the slow and steady weightloss, a once a month splurge isn't likely to make me gain.

"a once a month splurge isn't likely to make me gain."
Wish I could say the same Antje. Since being taken off my diuretic pills (and put onto one other) I have gained 14lbs in weight - and I can feel it!

Just had the mince for my 2nd meal - it only had to be reheated and I've felt really exhausted after going to town for my leg fix and my Covid jab. I did try to go into a new shop in town (Neil parked about 15 feet from the door) but once in there my legs wouldn't hold me up and Neil had to go and get the wheelchair from the car to get me out. Covid jab was sore this time too, which surprised me.

MrsA2 said:

Well it all went wrong last evening. I went to a meeting where there usually only tea or coffee, but a birthday person brought along nibbles (all carbs) and wine, then someone else produced a cake! Then I was sent home with leftovers for hubby!
I had 1, then 2 then a handful, then most! I'm blaming the Prosecco!

Today resolved I must lose this extra stone I'm carrying.
Started with cwc then errands and a wonderful back massage.
L: 1 cold sausage, 1 hard boiled egg, 1/4 pear. Some ff greek yoghurt

Then a planned walk went wrong due to some intimidating young cows in a field. I was on my own and they kept rounding up around me, so I gave up and retraced my steps. Trouble was diversion was longer and along a road without a footway. Luckily some friends drove past, stopped and gave me a lift. We were all heading to a charity tea. It was all scones but I managed to swerve them by just having a strawberries and clotted cream.

I did manage to walk home choosing a different route through the bluebell woods. A friend came with me.

D: a large chunk cheese, 3 slices hm lc soda bread, a bit of pizza topping.

Off to a dancing weekend tomorrow. There will be lots of exercise, some wine and hopefully minimal carbs.

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Have a fun time

Two protein bars (date and peanut) and a cup of coffee for breakfast.

2nd meal will be sausages and mash (mashed potato from freezer). Still watching the veg intake so am not intending to include any, especially after the protein bars this morning.

Feeling very tired today plus my legs aren't holding me up very well. Maybe the jab yesterday has something to do with it, though they don't usually bother me. A bit chilly as well.

My okra has arrived from Amazon.

It won't be sausages, I just looked in the big fridge and there were none, so it will be lamb chops.

Another protein bar for breakfast, with a cup of coffee.
2nd meal will be smoked haddock with leeks.

Been baking a new (American) chocolate cake recipe today for an event tomorrow. It looks like a nice, moist cake but it was a bit of a faff making it. Much more complicated than my usual one. Still - it's done and now I just have to put some ganache on it to finish it off.

That's enough for one day - I'll do the rest tomorrow.

Does it help?

Antje77 said:

Still completely frustrated with not being able to find settings to turn off the spell checker

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Antje77 said:

I can't find how to install a password to open the computer.

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or is it a MacBook? In that case, I'm really jealous that you were able to buy it at that price.

Zhnyaka said:

Does it help?

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Thank you!

I simply went back to the store where I bought it during my break yesterday, and the friendly man there fixed my issues within 5 minutes!
Not a macbook thankfully, I would have no idea how to use it. Just a very sturdy (steel body) old HP laptop running on Windows 10.

Nearly through my dancing weekend. Lots and lots of exercise, laughter and meeting new people.
However the food at the hotel is dire.
Friday night dinner was choice of fish cake or mushroom soup or croutons salad for starters, breaded chicken escalope, breaded fish or tomato pasta for mains, cheesecake or sponge or fruit salad for pudding.
I went for the mushroom soup then the escalope, then just 2 bites if the sponge pudding.
Not currently wearing a cgm so no idea of bg effects, but omg the bloating and wind!!! All that evening and through the night, even after 3 hours solid dancing.

Breakfast I had 2 fried eggs, 2 rashers of bacon and mushrooms but within an hour terrible indigestion again. The evening before I'd thought it was the wheat/carbs but now I'm convinced it must be the oil they cook in , as nothing in that breakfast should have caused any problems.

So painful I didn't want or need anything else until the evening. I was worried the menu would be as bad so I bought a pot of olives and feta cheese that
I could eat if needed.
Luckily choice was a bit better so I went for a mini tart eating only the filling of cheese and onion, then a main of roast pork, avoiding potatoes peas and sweetcorn but filled up on cauliflower cheese. Pud was fresh fruit, so 2 small pieces watermelon.

Yay, no nasty effects.

BTW we danced 2 and half hours in the morning, walked 2 hours in the afternoon and danced 3 hours this evening.

Did eat far too many of the chocolate put in the tables and had 2 glasses wine each night

Only breakfast (going to ask for poached eggs) and 3 more hours dancing to go!

Morning all. It's a beautiful day so I'm going to do some gardening. I did some yesterday and it's a state of 5 minutes gardening then 5 minutes sitting down to catch my breath! So I get half as much done as I'd like. But I need the exercise. I didn't have the 2 chicken legs yesterday so I'll have them today with fried cauli, grated carrot and broccoli. Have a great day all.

Didn't bother eating yesterday afternoon/evening. I did cook the fish and the leeks but then couldn't be bothered to eat. So that's breakfast sorted. Must heat it up soon and get going with the day.

2nd meal will be my stock bacon and cabbage with maybe a few extra veg thrown in.

One of those veggies will not be okra. That's another job for today, working out the best way to cook okra. There's enough in the box for a few experiments. Stewing with onion and tomato is straightforward enough, so that's one dish. I know it can be deep fried, but I'd rather shallow fry it, so that's another thing to try. I've never seen anything about baking it, and that's something I want to try as well. The stew will freeze, Alistair will take some of the other trials to see if they are acceptable. If they are, it might help his IBS so I'll get some more.

Poached eggs and bacon for breakfast, and no awful indigestion, yay!

3 hours dancing and a traffic free 2 hour drive home.

Was absolutely lovely to have a lunch of simple, tasty, real, low carb ingredients.
Lettuce leaves spread with herby cream cheese, a little coleslaw, cucumber and 3 cherry tomatoes, scattered with some of the olives I bought but didn't need yesterday. It was sooo good

Even had the energy to remodel a part of the garden, ready for a more permanent change in the next few weeks.

Dinner , not very hungry so had a couple of spoonfuls of hubbys ready made curry bolstered with extra chicken.

Chicken tikka meatballs, radishes, cherry tomatoes and a piece of mild cheddar. Was afraid it'd be horrendously carby but only about 35g if my calculations are correct.

Hubby going to fry some eggs later so I can take meds otherwise that would've been it for the day.

Pensioner's Lunch today so no idea what's in store. I'm taking some strawberries and cream for pudding.Is there a difference between a pudding and a dessert? @MrsA2, what kind of dancing do you do? I can't imagine dancing for 3 hours! You must be very fit. @DEBBIESCOTT is also one I admire, going to the gym, Pelaton etc before going to work. I'm sooo envious.

Stewed okra, with other vegetables, is OK but fried and roasted are just a waste of ingredients. I think it's one of those ingredients that carry flavour, but have very little themselves. Not worth the bother, in my opinion. I do have powdered okra though, which might be useful for thickening stocks/soups and good for diabetes and IBS.

I ran out of steam yesterday so left finishing the cake (date it was needed changed to today) to this morning and left making the leek soup until this morning as well.

Breakfast: a couple of RyVita and Dairylea with a cup of decaf coffee - BG shot up despite insulin.

2nd meal will be out so will have to be whatever I take with me. I've taken a vegetable "cake" out of the freezer - made with cauli/coconut rice and a mixture of vegetables. There's rather a lot of it there and I have a feeling anyway that it will fall apart once I take it out of the tin, so it might be converted to a jewelled "rice" instead.

The chocolate cake looks really good - very light and obviously very moist. Just topped it with some buttercream this morning and sprinkled half with peanut butter "chips". There was enough of the mixture to make two 12" x 8" traybakes so I've just finished both and will put one in the freezer. One should be big enough. I've cut it into 16 pieces. They are very rich so shouldn't be massive anyway.

EDIT: Has anyone noticed that Dairylea triangles are smaller than they used to be? They are slightly shallower than they used to be and ever so slightly smaller triangles - more space in the box for them. Still enough for a tasty breakfast, but still....

I'm no chemist but I'm slightly concerned to discover that the most common method of decaffeinating coffee is using ethyl acetate and decaffeinating tea usually involves using methyl chloride (the are 3 other ways - just water, carbon dioxide and ethyl acetate). The chemical ways are the most common for both drinks.

Both ethyl acetate and methyl chloride are used as paint strippers and there are serious concerns about exposure in most forms (including ingestion). Both are considered to be carcinogenic. What I'm not sure of is whether there is any chemical process involved that develops any kind of sugars. Nevertheless, it sounds bad enough to me and I think I shall cease and desist using decaf anything from now on.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ar...ethods-used-to-decaffeinate-coffee-bad-for-me - part of it quoted below.

"There are three main ways to decaffeinate coffee and they all start with the green, or unroasted, coffee bean. The first step is to get the caffeine out and this is usually done by soaking the beans in water which allows the caffeine, along with lots of the flavour, to dissolve out.

At this point chemical solvents - methylene chloride or ethyl acetate - can be used to remove the caffeine from the water. This can be done either by adding the solvent to the coffee/water mix (the so-called direct method) or by removing the water from the beans, and then adding the solvent to it (the indirect method)."

"Some people worry that because the chemical solvents are toxic, these methods must be bad for you. But the level of solvent remaining after the process is over is vanishingly small, and below the level deemed safe by European regulations."

The chemicals themselves, at higher levels are considered to be dangerous to human health.